 The three-year average for the 2024 calendar year is currently 11.7 adult female brown bears. We monitor this hunt and this harvest very closely, and hunters have succeeded. Hunters selecting to harvest male bears rather than female bears have allowed the season to remain open as long as it has. Closing the season at this point may allow additional reproductive age female bears to remain in the population for future years, said regional supervisor Cynthia Wardlow.